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• Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Book, Mind, Age

  "Stealing America's Future: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Liberalism". Book by William Steiner, 2010.

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• Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society.... We have seen all too clearly that there are men - now in power in this country - who do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Country, Believe, Acceptance

  "The Impudent Snobs" by John R. Coyne, Jr., (p. 324), 1972.

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• The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Punishment, Criminals, Crime

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  News, Tables, Controversial

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Running, Butlers, Mates

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• Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and the leaders of the various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment too. It guarantees my free speech as much as it does their freedom of the press.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Views, Media, Leader

  "The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment".

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• Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Boston, Advice, Asking

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Autumn, White, House

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Morning, New York, Military

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• You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Team

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• I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Hands, Feet, Pockets

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• All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sleep, Shoes, Chicago

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• I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Ghetto, Cities, Political

  In Detroit Free Press 19 Oct. 1968

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• If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Stupid, Ghetto, Cities

  In Detroit Free Press 19 Oct. 1968

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• It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Complaining, Nerves, Disease

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Past, Gaps, Generations

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches”

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• A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Eyebrows, Voice, Doubt

  "Spiro Agnew's Media Legacy: Trump, Obama and Time Magazine" by Jeffrey Lord, www.newsbusters.org. February 11, 2017.

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• The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Educational, Political, Sound

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Clever, Writing, Years

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sports, Winning, People

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